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Ten Thousand Haiku

27 years of 17-syllable days

Tag Archives: long

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsencat, cats, couch, COVID-19, fur, haiku, hair, House, housesitting, leaving, long, orange, pandemic, pet, poem, Poetry, rise, slow, social distancing, tufts Leave a comment

Long-haired orange cat
Rises slowly from the couch,
Leaves a tuft of fur

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29 August 2020Calvin Olsenboilerplate, Calvin Olsen, COVID-19, filling, haiku, long, pandemic, poem, Poetry, slow, social distancing, syllabus, teaching, tedium, text, University, writing Leave a comment

New course syllabus
Slowly fills with text—COVID
Boilerplate so long

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20 July 2020Calvin Olsen2, bright, Calvin Olsen, COVID-19, garden, gardening, haiku, large, long, octagon, plants, poem, Poetry, scars, shape, social distancing, two, vegetables, zucchini Leave a comment

Two large zucchini:
One almost octagonal
One with long bright scars

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5 June 2020Calvin OlsenCalvin Olsen, cover, COVID-19, Duke Forest, haiku, highway, hike, hiking, long, nature, North Carolina, poem, Poetry, Shadows, social distancing, Trees Leave a comment

Tree shadows longer
Since we’ve hiked the loop cover
Most of the highway

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27 April 2020Calvin Olsenbouquet, Calvin Olsen, close, clover, COVID-19, flower bouquet, Flowers, haiku, holding, long, nature, plants, poem, Poetry, pretty, social distancing, stem, three, times, wrap Leave a comment

Bouquet of flowered
Clover: the longest stem wrapped
Three times holds them close

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11 April 2020Calvin OlsenCOVID-19, crack, creeper, fingers, free, gardening, haiku, long, nature, plants, poem, Poetry, RIP, social distancing, thick, vine, weeds, yard, yardwork Leave a comment

A yards-long creeper
Thicker than most my fingers
Rips free with a CRACK

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11 April 2020Calvin Olsenangle, angle bracket, bracket, change, class, close, code, coding, colors, COVID-19, haiku, last, lines, long, poem, Poetry, programming, social distancing, words Leave a comment

Last angle bracket
Closes a long line of code—
Some words change colors

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29 January 2020Calvin Olsenalmost, breath, Breathing, constellation, crisp, exhale, full, full moon, grasp, haiku, Light, long, Moon, Orion, poem, Poetry, Stars, Winter Leave a comment

Crisp full winter moon
Almost in Orion’s grasp
Lights my long exhale

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12 September 2019Calvin Olsenbasketball, brick, haiku, long, movement, net, place, poem, Poetry, quick, Shadows, shot, snap, sports, walls, white, YMCA Leave a comment

Long shot snaps the net—
Shadow on a white brick wall
Moves back into place

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11 June 2019Calvin Olsenanimals, argyle, Grass, haiku, landscaping, litter, long, nature, poem, Poetry, Quad, sidewalk, squirrels, thick, UNC, University Leave a comment

Sidewalks argyle
The thick grass of a long quad
Littered with squirrels

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